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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Andrew Carroll
4.24 AVERAGE
6 reviews for:
My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Andrew Carroll
4.24 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
This book gave a personal perspective on the events and lives of the people involved in The Great War. The life and history of Pershing provides the vehicle by which the stories of so many others are told. The personal correspondences from soldiers, chaplains, nurses, officers, generals, and others offered me a glimpse into the minds of the people who served America during wartime.
First and foremost, big thanks to Goodreads for me winning this in a giveaway.
In other news, this book is excellent. It's well-written and easy to read, when is always an important factor, whether non-fiction or fiction. The personal stories all tied into the narrative smoothly and helped bring hundred-year-old history to a more relatable level. These stories help prove the well done research, emphasized also by the notes and bibliography.
The title was well chosen. This is a look at the people involved in the whole effort, from volunteer nurses to future presidents. General Pershing is used as the tie that binds everyone together, rather than a complete focus and biography on him, though it certainly contains lots of information about the AEF commander and his own personal tragedy.
Really, the only major downside for me was that my copy was an uncorrected advance copy. I look forward to seeing a corrected edition and the index that was absent from my own.
In other news, this book is excellent. It's well-written and easy to read, when is always an important factor, whether non-fiction or fiction. The personal stories all tied into the narrative smoothly and helped bring hundred-year-old history to a more relatable level. These stories help prove the well done research, emphasized also by the notes and bibliography.
The title was well chosen. This is a look at the people involved in the whole effort, from volunteer nurses to future presidents. General Pershing is used as the tie that binds everyone together, rather than a complete focus and biography on him, though it certainly contains lots of information about the AEF commander and his own personal tragedy.
Really, the only major downside for me was that my copy was an uncorrected advance copy. I look forward to seeing a corrected edition and the index that was absent from my own.
Easy to read summary of American involvement in WWI; Carroll relies heavily on the letters and writings of various participants, and he chose his subjects well. There is a focus on Pershing but also on Carroll's other subjects - it's very much a ground-level view of the war, its progress, and its consequences.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
reflective
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